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Susan
Quick, where’s my Netflix queue? OK…shazam!
Orbital - The Box
Daft Punk - Around the World and Technologic
The Wiseguys - Start the Commotion
Sparks - The Rythm Thief A classic melodrama.
Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream and Don’t Come Around Here No More
I’ll second November Rain, if only for the ultra-hotness of Stephanie Seymour.
The Chili Peppers animated Love Rollercoaster video is fun.
Madonna’s had many very memorable videos, I’m just not sure which one I’d put first. Maybe Like A Prayer.
Any video that is exhibited in the New York MOMA has to be considered, at the least, awesome.
Yup, some good ones listed here…
But this one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QWKt1YlquA&search=death%20in%20vegas
Dirt by Death in Vegas totally knocks me out… incredible. :eek:
Dude, I was totally looking for that, but I got Orbital mixed up with The Orb and turned up nothing. Thanks for posting it!
Guns N’ Roses used to be perennial top-10 entries in the various ‘best videos’ lists, when suddenly they dropped out of sight. But they made some classics:
November Rain
Don’t Cry
Estranged
Don’t Cry is one of my favorites - just a great video.
I nominate for consideration “The World I Know” by Collective Soul.
The chorus of the song contains the lines…
This chorus rendered in the video as a suicide jumper, stepping up to the ledge of a building, then changing his mind as a bird lands on his outstretched hand.
I recall nothing of the video except that moment. The look on the guy’s face before and after the bird’s landing… The anguish before, both at the thought of jumping as well as all that led him to that ledge - then after, the laughing-through-tears look of surprise, relief, and new found appreciation for the beauty of the world… all conveyed in gestures and facial expressions… masterfully done. It’s a image that has lingered these many years since I’ve seen the video.
Johnny Cash - Hurt. The only music video that made me cry.
You know…in the old old days MTV play videos…all the time!
I miss those days…
In the same vein, I nominate Tool’s Sober. This quote sums it up best:
“Creeping, rusty meat. Truly the heart and soul of death metal.”–Strong Bad
Although Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice hacks, mangles, and mashes all competition into a pulp, there’s a few more worth mentioning:
twisted sister - i wanna rock (especially the part where they bang their heads against the lockers)
aphex twin - windowlicker / come to daddy
the prodigy - firestarter / breathe / smack my bitch up
daft punk - around the world
avalanches - since i left you / frontier psychiatrist
men at work - land down under
pussy cat dolls - don’t cha (she’s so hot, I piss my pants.)